Think about this: It was illegal for most people to connect to the internet before 1992.

All great ideas start as weird ideas. What now seems obvious, early on, is not obvious to anybody.

I think what people love about the Steve Jobs story is not just the track record at Apple, but that comeback story, that he was thrown out of Apple, came back and built the company even greater. And that perseverance is so important in terms of entrepreneurship. And nobody is a better role model for that, for all entrepreneurs all over the world than Steve Jobs.

Steve Jobs always believed that you didn't want to do focus groups or research and ask people what they wanted. You wanted to create products that they didn't know they wanted yet and they would fall in love with. And I think that was part of the magic of his design philosophy.

I think it took us nine years to get one million subscribers to AOL, and then in the next nine years we went from one million to 35 million.

The only way to continue to have a robust economy is to out-innovate other nations.

I enjoyed high school and college, and I think I learned a lot, but that was not really my focus. My focus was on trying to figure out what businesses to start